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THE most sensitive chemical method for determining epinephrine in solution is the reaction with ethylenediamine. The reaction yields a number of products, several of which are fluorescent. These substances can be used for quantitative measurement. Nor-epinephrine produces a fluorescence of different colour so that mixtures of the two compounds can be determined by the selection of appropriate filters in measuring the fluorescent light1.
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ELLMAN, G. Determination of Epinephrine and Related Compounds on Paper Chromatograms. Nature 181, 768–769 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181768b0
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